"All you can EAT!" A regional/state thing?

[paulam]

Originally Posted by AGDee

We used to go to Ponderosa and Old Country Buffet a lot because we could feed the kids cheap with their pricing structure. The kids only wanted the buffet. Now, they really like those two places because of a few favorite foods. We went to a few buffets on vacation because they were considerably cheaper than the sit down places. I especially like breakfast buffets because for breakfast I'd like ONE pancake or piece of french toast, plus eggs, plus some meat and maybe some hash browns, etc. I don't want a full serving of pancakes or one huge omelet.. just my breakfast preferences I guess. When I do eat at a buffet, I generally just eat a meat and a couple sides anyway, so it doesn't really matter anymore. What I found funny was that at the buffets where we went on vacation, they all had signs on them that said "Take all you want but please eat all you take"

I worked with two rather large gentlemen, both way over 6 feet tall and each weighing way over 250 pounds. A new Chinese restaurant opened near our office offering an all-you can-eat lunch buffet. My two co-workers decided to try it. After they had almost eaten their fill, the hostess arrived at their table and announced in a voice everyone in the restaurant could hear, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" When they told us about this, the entire office staff cracked up and of course, we avoided that place from that day on. They closed soon after due to their lack of customer service.

Whenever my family goes to an all-you-can-eat buffet, we always recite the mantra, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" We always laugh before the meal and no one around us knows why!

Paula M.
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[epchick]

Originally Posted by paulam

I worked with two rather large gentlemen, both way over 6 feet tall and each weighing way over 250 pounds. A new Chinese restaurant opened near our office offering an all-you can-eat lunch buffet. My two co-workers decided to try it. After they had almost eaten their fill, the hostess arrived at their table and announced in a voice everyone in the restaurant could hear, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" When they told us about this, the entire office staff cracked up and of course, we avoided that place from that day on. They closed soon after due to their lack of customer service.

Whenever my family goes to an all-you-can-eat buffet, we always recite the mantra, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" We always laugh before the meal and no one around us knows why!

That kind of customer service must be popular in Chinese Restaurants. Something similar happened to my brother (i believe) years ago.

I'm not exactly sure how the story went but it culminated in the restaurant owner yelling at my brother "you been here 4 owahs (hours)"

My mom still cracks up at it, and she constantly jokes around when we are together as a family spending a lot of time in a restaurant! lol

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by epchick

That kind of customer service must be popular in Chinese Restaurants. Something similar happened to my brother (i believe) years ago.

I'm not exactly sure how the story went but it culminated in the restaurant owner yelling at my brother "you been here 4 owahs (hours)"

My mom still cracks up at it, and she constantly jokes around when we are together as a family spending a lot of time in a restaurant! lol

Funny, honeychile said it happened to her friend too.

I didn't realize John Pinette knew so many GCers!

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah

Funny, honeychile said it happened to her friend too.

I didn't realize John Pinette knew so many GCers!

Haha - I wonder if he's a poster too...

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah

Funny, honeychile said it happened to her friend too.

I didn't realize John Pinette knew so many GCers!

Correction which I should have made before: I was told that it happened to my two friends, but they were taking advantage of my naivety. If you saw these two men, you would have believed it happened, too. I only found out that it had happened after the abuse heaped on me at the last post - with apologies from those who did it.

Now I just remind them that "All You Can Eat" is an option, not a dare.

[OneTimeSBX]

Originally Posted by paulam

I worked with two rather large gentlemen, both way over 6 feet tall and each weighing way over 250 pounds. A new Chinese restaurant opened near our office offering an all-you can-eat lunch buffet. My two co-workers decided to try it. After they had almost eaten their fill, the hostess arrived at their table and announced in a voice everyone in the restaurant could hear, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" When they told us about this, the entire office staff cracked up and of course, we avoided that place from that day on. They closed soon after due to their lack of customer service.

Whenever my family goes to an all-you-can-eat buffet, we always recite the mantra, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" We always laugh before the meal and no one around us knows why!

Paula M.
Sigma Delta Tau
ΣΔT
Patriae Multi Spes Una One Hope of Many People

ha ha! ive seen a few people that i know got more than their money's worth...

i used to work with inner city girls when i was coming out of high school. one day after a trip to DC i took them to Golden Corral.

after i got up to pay, WHY did one of the girls break out a tupperware container??? she said she wanted to take some chicken home for dinner, and all that did was start a wave of "oh hell yeah! give me some napkins" and every girl in there left with more food than they came with.

i didnt know what went down until we got outside to the van, and it was filled with the smell of brownies and chicken lol! i explained that even though i know a lot of them were in difficult (i.e. poor) circumstances at home, that it was wrong to do that. and i never took them to a buffet again...

[Tippiechick]

Originally Posted by paulam

I worked with two rather large gentlemen, both way over 6 feet tall and each weighing way over 250 pounds. A new Chinese restaurant opened near our office offering an all-you can-eat lunch buffet. My two co-workers decided to try it. After they had almost eaten their fill, the hostess arrived at their table and announced in a voice everyone in the restaurant could hear, "You bigga boys. You eat too much. You go now!" When they told us about this, the entire office staff cracked up and of course, we avoided that place from that day on. They closed soon after due to their lack of customer service.

LOL. When I was pregnant with Max, I was miserably sick with a condition called HG that made me seriously nauseated EVERY moment of the day. The ONLY place I could find relief was this certain Chinese buffet.

I went in there one day between lunch and dinner. It was 3:15. They started dinner at 3:30. I was there for the crab legs and expected to be charged a dinner price since it was 3:30 by the time I was seated and began eating the dinner foods.

Anyway, I had been there about 30 minutes and had one plate of crab legs. I had to eat them slowly to keep them down. I thought the waitress was going to ask me for a refill of my drink, but instead she took the plate that I was ACTUALLY STILL EATING OFF from OUT OF MY HAND. She threw me out saying I was trying to cheat the restaurant by eating dinner at a lunch price.

I tried to explain that I had expected the dinner price, as I was eating dinner foods. But, they said I had to go. I waddled out, but I still won't go to that place anymore.